I was born in Kraków (Poland) but I began my university education in Warsaw, specialising in Classics and Early Christianity. I subsequently completed my MA, PhD, as well as canonical degrees (STB, STL, and STD) at the Faculty of Theology at KU Leuven, Belgium. 

My research revolves mainly around the New Testament and other early Christian writings, with a particular focus on the Corinthian correspondence, as well as their reception up to the contemporary period. In my doctoral research I examined the olfactory imagery in 2 Cor 2:14-17, and the motif of scent in ancient Jewish literature more generally. My subsequent projects have included emotions in ancient Jewish and Christian literature; women and gender in Early Christianity; disability in the Bible and in contemporary Christian contexts; the significance of material evidence for the interpretation of the New Testament; and biblical hermeneutics. 

I welcome PhD applicants with an interest in any of the above topics. 

I have been actively involved in the governance of several scholarly societies, including my role of the Executive Officer (2016-2019) of the European Association of Biblical Studies (EABS). I co-chair two EABS research groups (Emotions and the Biblical World, and Bodies of Communication). In addition, I co-chair the Senses, Cultures and Biblical Worlds section of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), I have served on the SBL’s Status of Women in the Profession Committee and I am a member of the steering committee of the SBL Bible and Emotion section. 

I am also an honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Biblical Studies at the University of Manchester, UK, and at KU Leuven, Belgium.

Teaching Specialisms:

• Academic Study of the Bible
  
• Biblical Hermeneutics 
  
• Theology and Disability
  
• Pauline Literature 
  
• Family, Sexuality, and the Bible
  
• Gender, Religion and Violence

I also regularly organise field trips, including longer international study tours to countries such as Greece or Turkey.

School/Faculty Roles:

TPRS Programme Lead

Partnerships & Accreditations Faculty Lead

Academic Lead for Birmingham Newman University

Level H Theology Co-ordinator

Theology UG Dissertations Co-ordinator

Recent Publications:

“(Inc)sensing Revelation: Incense, Senses, and the Agency of Incense Utensils in the Apocalypse of John,” in N. Leach, D.C. Smith, & T. Keddie (eds.), Revelation and Material Religion in the Roman East:  Essays in Honor of Steven J. Friesen (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies), Routledge, 2024, pp. 109-125. 

(Co-edited with M.M. Ibita, B. Lemmelijn, and S. Whitear) Kindness, Courage and Integrity in Biblical Texts and in the Politics of Biblical Interpretation: Festschrift Reimund Bieringer (BETL 333), Leuven: Peeters, 2023.

“Gemeinsame Mühe, gemeinsame Leitung? Apostelinnen, Mitarbeiterinnen und Gastgeberinnen von Hauskirchen im Zeugnis der paulinischen Briefe,“ in U. Poplutz & K. Zamfir (eds.), Neutestamentliche Briefliteratur (Bibel und Frauen 2.2), Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2023, pp. 193-215 (= English version: “Toiling Together, Leading Together? Women Apostles, Co-Workers, and Hosts of Domestic Ekklesiai as Attested in the Pauline Letters,” in U. Poplutz & K. Zamfir [eds.], New Testament Letters [Bible and Women 2.2], to be published by SBL Press, Atlanta, GA).

(With Emma Swai) “Excluded from the Kingdom or Leading the Revolution? Môroi and the Question of Intellectual Disability in New Testament Writings,” in Ch. Laes & I. Metzler (eds.), ‘Madness’ in the Ancient World: Innate or Acquired? From Theoretical Concepts to Daily Life, Turnhout: Brepols, 2023, 123-157. 

“Lehren ja – aber nicht ex cathedra: Frauen aus den Paulusbriefen in der patristischen Literatur,” in A. Siquans & M. Vinzent (eds.), Biblische Frauenfiguren in der Spätantike (Bibel und Frauen 5.2), Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2022, pp. 163-209 (= English version: “Teaching, Just Not ex cathedra: Women from the Letters of Paul in Patristic Literature,” in A. Siquans & M. Vinzent [eds.], Biblical Women in Late Antiquity [Bible and Women 2.2], to be published by SBL Press, Atlanta, GA).

“The Wedded Wife of Romans 7:1-6,” in J.M.G. Barclay (ed.), Dying with Christ - New Life in Hope: Romans 5,12-8,39, Leuven: Peeters, 2021, pp. 107-135. 

“Divine Generosity in the Midst of Conflict: Sin and Its Remedy in 2 Corinthians,” in N. Gupta and J. Goodrich (eds.), Sin and Its Remedy in Paul (Contours of Pauline Theology), Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2020, pp. 81-99.